Q: What is Internal Authority?

Q: What is the mission of Woven Wild?

For thousands of years, and in cultures across this whole beautiful planet, weaving has been deeply rooted in land and culture. Weaving has very often been done by women and their creations were woven with meaning and symbolism, leaving teachings and guidance for future generations.

In the same sense, Woven Wild’s mission is to support women in cultivating the capacity to create lives in which they can genuinely thrive, and for their thriving to have ripple effects into future generations — This is the ‘woven’ aspect of this work. Understanding what we have been created by (history, culture, systems, stories, trauma etc.) and untangling the threads of our being to reveal our “true” selves. This is where the “wild” aspect comes in.

To be wild in this sense is to be free, liberated, sovereign. To be able to become what we were meant to, not to be constricted or held back or controlled. This part of the work is rooted in the values of nature and sovereignty for all, and so therefore is about exploring the places we have been “tamed” and dominated or shut down, and cultivating our own capacity to free ourselves from within.

How this happens?

We heal shame, learn how to nurture ourselves through compassion, and weave ways of being into our daily existence that support our unique paths.

We do this by cultivating the ability to feel — which is inherently liberating because it empowers you to be able to face your deepest wounds (the places we stay stuck and in cycles) with the utmost compassion.

When we can turn towards our biggest fears and hold them with love, they shift, and when they do, so do our lives.

This work is not about creating currated or picture perfect lives, it’s about restoring our inherent sacredness — shifting our perspective on the most shameful, hurting parts of ourselves and loving them into liberation.

This work is a cyclical unfolding — just like nature.

Q: What does creativity have to do with women’s liberation?

We often associate creativity with the arts — painting, dancing, sculpting, acting etc. and this is a limiting understanding of creativity. To me, creativity is a tool of liberation that entails taking the raw material of your life and transforming it into something different. It is the skill and practice of working within limitations while expanding perspectives and access new possibilities. It involves imagination, being able to envision/feel/dream of something that you do not yet see and still be able to hold that vision, while cultivating its potentiality into your life.

When we feel trapped and limited, creativity is the antidote. It offers fluidity where there is stuckness, it offers possibility where there has been overwhelming fear and hopelessness.

Creativity invites us to explore in a way that does not require anything more than curiosity, and we all have access to that.